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highly recommend this as well.

Words matter and so do PsyOps and confirmation bias. Companies are savvy at marketing so they should tailor their apologies to trigger good will confirmation bias in their customers. Actually, according to pre-suasion, they should stage false flag events so help the public pick the right confirmation bias the second time.

Does anyone really believe in 'lone typists' when we live in a world where #Vault7 is likely on #S3?

Personally, I think we should all grow up and doubt all news accounts and company PR from any source, until cui bono and Analysis of Competing Hypotheses (ACH) in the Critical Thinking process they use in the IC and LE communities has been thoroughly engaged. Especially if the company has a contract for #SpookCloud.

We are all intelligence analysts now.

I agree testing and automation are good. I think they need to go beyond this to formal verification, for something on this scale and reliability. NASA doesn't make these sorts of mistakes.

By the way - this is not just Amazon's problem now. We know the internet has a single point of failure. So does a lot of IoT.

When will we experience the first Suicide DevOps?

as long as you are going to experiment, why not use a smart contract to implement your license? If someone meets your reserve price, it goes open source earlier. You can have a salvage value close 3 years in the future if the terms of the Code Tontine are not met.

True. I think Kurt Vonnegut had a short story that dealt with that aspect of the plan. A search for "Handicapper General" should dredge it up.

Isn't that what rot13 is for? A think a special compiler switch, along the lines of -Drot13, would work just fine for people who have special needs like that.

Yes, one of life's harsher lessons is just how vicious Unitarians can be.

That's true now but not in all historical periods. In the original system, m. was an abbreviation for mille, and not a composable component of the numeral at all. In effect, it served as a comma does in English text today, to separate the thousands from the units -- both of which were encoded using the composable letter system we are now familiar with.

Later, of course, people assimilated the operation of the M to the other letters, esp. on the dates of printed books. However, if we are discussing manuscript practice in the 15th century, the medieval approach and not the modern approach to Roman numerals would likely be in play...

In any event, using mm. to represent mille mille (a thousand thousand, a million in modern parlance) would create no cognitive dissonance as it does today.

Who will guard the people themselves?

every social community I've seen eventually has to give up the downvote as a tool and just have upvotes or likes, or else they peak when the downvoting gets out of hand. I think HNN passed that point about 1-2 years ago. I see more and more worthwhile comments greyed out and I'm sure good contributers who advocate unpopular languages or discount the latest hotness are now driven away.